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Law Enforcement The announcement by Attorney-General Ogden that he .ntends to invade some, not all, counties of the stete and endeavor to enforce laws for the **egulation of public morals suggests that law enforcement might start with something really fundamental. At the elec-ion which placed Ogden in office there were vast frauds in Lake and perhaps other counties. It is well established” that these frauds were committed, possibly large enough in volume to change the result on one or two state offices. It has been established that truck loads of men and women were imported from Chicago and voted as repeaters in many precincts. „ None of the criminals have been punished. None of the men who furnish the money for these crimes have been arrested. In fact, there is a general belief that they have been protected. The recent primaries showed a repetition of these offenses. Behind them are men of power and influence and money who control government by such frauds. It is small wonder that laws, many laws, are openly violated in every county in the state when the government of the state rests on fraud and corruption for its authority. The attorney-general could perform a real public service by successfully changing the basis of government from anarchy and fraud tc the will of the people. Catching a craps shooter may be important. Jailiig an election. thief is much more so. Needed, a Contortionist Apparently the state Republican party will need not the usual platform writer, but a contortionist to draft the customary articles of faith. Considerable bravery is required to indorse the tarifT bill in the face of denunciation by all classes of citizens, Including those who have supported the party in this state with large contributions. Faced by widespread unemployment, the time worn plea to the workers to vote the Republican ticket and be prosperous has a hollow sound. More difficulty is encountered when public officials seek commendation. To commend Watson is to criticise Robinson. Possibly someone can discern something to commend in the office of the secretary of state who seeks re-election. The platform might point to the fact that he has put more of the precinct and ward politicians on the public pay roll than any of his predecessors. Nor should his handling of the automobile license fees be forgotten whereby every driver was permitted to contribute an extra quarter to some political favorite. If weasel words are lacking on this occasion, the party might for once be frank and write its platform in a single plank which would read “We confess our sins and rely upon the inevitable stupidity of the Democratic party and the usual indifference of the people to the fate of the government for our success.’’

The Highest Bidder The price of senate seats is going up. Newberry of Michigan caused a scandal by spending less than $200,000. Smith of Illinois for exceeding $400,000 was denied entrance to the senate. Vare of Pennsylvania was refused a seat because he spent $785,000. j Recently the public was startled by the discovery that Ruth Hanna McCormick in the Illinois primary spent $252,000 of her own money—not counting the presumably larger sum spent by others for her, and not counting the presumably larger expenses for the election campaign itself. Now comes the revelations of the Pennsylvania Republican primary. Known expenses of Grundy, tariff lobbyist and senator, were $338,000. He lost. Secretary of Labor Davis won. Davis-Brown ticket expenditures, so far uncovered by the investigating committee, total $366,000. When the election expenses are included, doubtless the seat will cost Davis well over half a million. Half a million dollars for a SIO,OOO job! Davis personally contributed only slo,s4l—for the remainder of the huge primary fund he is indebted to others. Samuel Vauclain, head of the Baldwin locomotive works, was his treasurer, acting on request of President Atterbury of the Pennsylvania railroad. Andrew Mellon, sometimes called “the greatest secretary of the treasury since Hamilton," of course backed Grundy. But it is disclosed that he played both ends against the m.ddle by contributing also to the Davis ticket. He gave $5,000, and two other members of his family equal amounts, making the total sls,ooo—or enough to pay Davis’ salary for a year and a half. Davis is reputed to be a very wealthy man. Why he didn't pay the bulk of his own primary expenses is not known. That would have been bad enough. But for him—or any other senate aspirant—to be obligated to others for more than a third of a million dollars is worse. Under the present system, money talks. In too many states only a millionaire, or a man backed by millionaires, can be in the running for a senatorial nomination, much less election. Such system is unfair to every candidate. Such system is unfair to the country. Such system is a mockery of representative government. Rigid limitation and control of all national political campaign funds is necessary to restore public confidence in federal office holders. The Tariff Joker Stung by growing public criticism of the Grundy billion-dollar tariff bill, its advocates have been seeking an answer. They profess to have found it in the so-called flexible provision, empowering the President on recommendation of the tariff commission to change Individual rates up to 50 per cent. In the symposium given out by the Republican national propaganda bureau yesterday, Senate* Fess of Ohio described the flexible provision as “an expeditious, scientific and responsible method for revision which occur in the tariff.'' Senator

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tifle and nonpartisan determination of the tariff in such fashion that we can hope confidently that tariff making will be removed entirely from politics for a number of years.” White House spokesmen have been preparing to remove the curse from a probable presidential signature of the bill with this same excuse. If the American public is fooled it will be because Americans have no memory. Identical arguments were used in 1922 to justify passage of the bill which is our present law. Then the claim was made that the flexible provision would be used by the President to lower rather than to raise rates, and that this provision would take the tariff out of politics and put it on a scientific basis. Has it? Obviously not, or there would be no excuse for congress in 1930 to make a general upward revision and to resort to wholesale log-rolling to change the rates left untouched by the allegedly model scientific tariff commission and presidential flexible provision. The memory of the people may not be long, but they can not forget the collapse of the tariff com-mission-presidential flexible panacea which still is before their eyes. Under this method rates have gone up, not down—as pledged in 1922 and pledged again today. In changing thirty-twc rates, Coolidge lowered only five insignificant ones. In changing four rates Hoover has lowered none. Under this method, adjustment of rates to meet sudden emergencies has not occurred. The commission and the President have consumed more time on a rate change than has congress—which disapproves the advertised advantages of the method. Under this method the tariff commission and its reports have not been scentific, but partisan. There is as much politics in the commission as in congress. Commissioners usually have been named by Presidents because their views conformed with those of the White House, not because of any scientific standing of the appointee. High tariff Democrats have been named to evade the bi-partisan requirement of the law, and to make the commission hostile to rate reductions. Such a commission could not possibly conduct a scientific inquiry or agree on a scientific report. The latest proof of the partisan nature of the commission is the unsolicited propaganda statement that the Grundy bill would help the farmers. Apart from the fact that this statement is in opposition to the view expressed by farm organizations and by the 1,0:18 leading economists of the country, the commission has no right to turn itself into a propaganda agency, either for or against the pending bill. After a record of eight years of failure and partisanship under the presidential flexible provision, the attempt to revive this exploded alibi as a justification for passing and signing the Grundy bill is an insult* to the intelligence of Americans. Asa subterfuge it Is as dangerous as it is silly, because that bill is killing our export trade, closing our mass production factories, and destroying our prosperity, ,

Keeping Melons Safe for Democracy In the eighth amendment to the Constitution of the United States it states that“excessive bail shall not be required.” This admonition seems never to have reached Imperial Valley, Cal. Organizers of agricultural labor came in and tried to entice the laborers in the melon fields into unionization. The melon barons flared up immediately at such audacity and demanded their arrest. The organizers were arrested and charged with criminal syndicalism. Their bail was fixed at $40,000 each. Their lawyers carried the case to the appellate court, which first reduced the bail to SI,OOO each, and then raised it to $5,000. To get around this reduction, the district attorney dismissed the case and thus nullified the action of the court. Then he had the grand jury indict the men on May 1 for the same offense. The court then fixed the bail at the exorbitant sum of $15,000 each. The men have been in jail for more than a month because of excessive bail and bail jugglery. It seems to be a hazardous occupation to try to make melons safe for democracy in California. Eskimos, explorers tell us, never spank their children. Probably because the worst an Eskimo kid can do in his mother’s pantry is to swipe a cake of ice. An editorial writer sees injustice in the arrest of a Montana woman for “indulging in peals of laughter in the streets. Maybe the police thought she’d die laughing. '

REASON

MEMORIAL DAY was established for the decoration of the graves of those who fought to save the Union in the Civil war, but very properly it now belongs to all who fought in all our wars, to all of them from Bunker Hill to the Argonne forest. # # tt There was a time when the heroic struggles from ’6l to '65 seemed very near, but with the passing of the years and the coming of other wars the children of our day more and more regard those struggles as a part of the far-off history of the republic. a a a JUST a little while ago the great commanders of the Union army were in our midst, leading in peace as they had led in war, while the blue legions which followed them everywhere, stabilizing the land they had preserved. Now the commanders are gone and of the legions but a handful remains. The youngest are now in their eighties and so long as they survive they should be reverenced as the last of those who fought with Washington were reverenced in their day. But for them our flag, u’hich floats so proudly, would have little dignity in this world. a a a Had secession been permitted to go its fatal way, where now is great America would be a band of little, envious sovereignties or one political unit, ruled by a man on horseback, for without Appomattox, Yorktown would have been in vain and self-government would be jest of kings. a a a , THOSE who followed Grant fought not only for our republic, but for republics in South America and for republics then unborn, for had the Union aerished Europe would have strangled liberty in this hemisphere and halted its march around the world. Napoleon told his soldiers that each of them carried in his knapsack a marshal's baton, but the Union soldier carried in his knapsack the fate of freedom everywhere! a a a To those who “gave the last full measure of devotion" in the war with Spain and in the World *a, a grateful nation gives equal honor, but had tjL ? been no Union army Spain would rule Uie Caribbean as of old and the allies would have looked in vain for a rescuing host ir. 1917. Monuments of marble rise to honor the Union soldier, but his real monument is tfee liberty of man-

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Astronomers Debate Heatedly Over the Canals Which Are a Great Feature of Mars. THE canals of Mars continue to be one of the debated points in the field of astronomy. The new 200-inch telescope which Is to be put on a California mountain top near Mt. Wilson will give an excellent view of Mars. Professor Henry Norris Russell that it will give enough information about Mars to make it possible to draw a daily weather map of the planet. But it remains to be seen whether it will settle the controversy over the canals. Mars, during this month, may be observed in the eastern sky during the hour or two before sunrise. Those who rise early enough to see the planet—or catch a glimpse of it on the way home from the country club—may be interested in the history of the canals and the controversy over them. In 1877, Schiaparelli announced the discovery of the so-called canals, a network of fine, dark, straight lines, crossing the planet in all directicns. He published further descriptions of them in 1879, and in 1881 announced that at times many of the lines became double, like parallel tracks of a railroad. tt tt Map THE surface of the planet Mars is ruddy or orange hue except 'for about three-eighths of the area, which is bluish gray or greenish and known as the darker regions. Schiaparelli had noted the canals in the ruddy regions. W. H. Pickering, American astronomer, announced in 1892 that the canal system contained a number of small dark spots from which the canals radiated in different directions. He also announced the discovery of darker markiiffes within the so-called darker regions. In 1894, Douglass described these markings within the darker regions as similar to, the canals in the ruddy regions. The announcements started a discussion which is far from any conclusion yet. The two extremes best can be summarized by quoting the views of two of the greatest planetary observers the world ever has known, the late Professor Lowell, and the late Professor Barnard. According to Lowell, the canals are very narrow, perhaps from fifteen to twenty miles wide in reality, very dark and perfectly straight. He said that they covered the planet with a network of geometric precision, as many as four to fourteen canals meeting in a spot or oasis which possessed a diameter of from fifteen to 100 miles. The Lowell observatory made careful maps of Mars, conferring names upon more than 400 canals and 200 oases. Lowell said that about fifty of the canals were double, as Schiaparelli had claimed in 1881. tt tt tt

Elusive BARNaRD, on the other hand, never was able to see any of the details which Lowell claimed existed. The most he could see, in his own words, were “short, diffused, hazy lines, running between several of the small, very black spots." On another occasion, he said that the sixty-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson gave “the impression of a globe whose entire surface had been tinted a light pink color, on which the dark details had been painted with a grayish-colored paint, supplied with a very poor brush, producing a shredded or streaky and wispy effect in the darker regions." He also said that “no one could delineate accurately the remarkable complexity of detail of the features which were visible in moments of the greatest steadiness.” (By steadiness, Barnard referred to our own atmosphere. Motions of our atmosphere interfere greatly with astronomical observations.) Antoniadi, working with the thirty-two-inch telescope ao Meudon, France, came to much the same conclusion as Barnard. Pickering, while seeing the canals in much the same locations as did Lowell, held that they were about 150 miles in width. As Russell says. “All these accounts represent the mature judgment of trained and experienced observers after long and careful study of the planet under favorable conditions. To reconcile their extraordinary divergences is very difficult.” The only possible explanation, he says, lies in a “complex persona! equation.” In other words, the eye sees faint markings, elusive markings, which change with the motions of the earth’s atmosphere. Different brains interpret these faint impressions differently. -TdoAyfjß‘THe ,s i JEFFERSON DAMS’ BIRTH June 3 ON June 3, 1808, Jefferson Davis, a soldier, statesman and the President of the Confederate states of America, was born in Todd county, Kentucky. His family moved, during his infancy, to Mississippi, with which state his fame always has been connected. Following his graduation from West Point in 1828, Davis served in the army for seven years resigning on account of illness. Davis first came into prominence as a member of the house og representatives, and later as a United States senator. He left congress at the outbreak of the Mexican war to enlist, and gained considerable fame as a soldier. When Pierce was elected President, Davis was appointed secretary of war, but left the cabinet when Buchanan became president. At the time Mississippi seceded from the Union, Davis was serving In the senate. Shortly after his resignation he was elected President of the Confederate states. After the fall of Richmond, in 1865, he was captured when endeavoring to escape and was imprisoned in Ft Monroe for two years. He was released on bail in 1867 and finally set at liberty by the general amnesty of 1868. ■ ■ - - -

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Tests Show Effect of Food Poisoning

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Marline. SOME months since, newspapers carried the account of an outbreak of food poisoning in Chicago due to the eating of some Christmas cake. When scientific investigation of cases of food poisoning is made, it is customary to trace the matter down to much finer proportions than the general subject of cake, pie or vegetables. Physicians now know that the vast majority of cases of food poisoning are due to germs and their products. In the case referred to here samples of the cake were brought to the scientific laboratory of the University of Chicago and a yellow staphylococcus, a round germ occurring in bunches, was found aong other organisms in the cake. When this germ was raised and

IT SEEMS TO ME

THE story of the statesmen and Hugo N. Frye has a certain interest, but I hardly feel that the successful prank of the lads upon the Cornell Sun deserve front-page pace. After all, I would not exactly call it news that Vice-President Curtis is not smart, and that Secretary Davis is less than an intellectual giant. Now, if the Vice-President were to fool a Cornell undergraduate, that would be news. There is small reason for me to take any such toplofty attitude, for it turns out that the gambusia apinis is not an insect at all, and as the thrilling air battle which I pictured it as waging with Jersey mosquitoes never can take place. However William T. O’Sullivan informs me that there is ample warrant for its pugnacious reputation. The gambusia may not be kept in a tank with anything but its own kind, for it will kill all others, and when in the mood does not draw the line at its own relatives. Accordingly, I willingly withdraw all objections which I made to the importation of gambusia into the neighboring commonwealth. I have two cousins and an aunt who go to swim in Jersey. van Just Takin’ Pains IN a letter from a radio listener in Fresno I think I find almost as much material as is picked into the average American novel about life down on the farm. “For five long and more or less weary years,” write S. D., “I was my own housekeeper and cook out in a little cabin on a farm. I heartily agreed with your four-day dishwashing schedule, bed-making made simple, a thorough dusting semiannually. That’s real efficiency. You have the correct dope. “I still have the same cabin much enlarged and there is my wife, who jumps up before I am finished with my shortcake and makes a big splash at dishwashing. Why the big rush, r never can see. We seldom are in a hurry to go any place. We are farmers and are too poor to do much getting ready and going places. “Then each morning there is a whale of a lot of dust raised in today’s dusting. ‘“Tomorrow 111 give the house a good cleaning,’ says my wife. Well, tomorrow never comes; she continues to do it today. “Then on Sunday when we decide to take a day off, a large part

CHIC SALE ADVISES MARRIED COUPLES June’s right here in our faces, and, of course, that means weddin’s. Well, now, it’s useless to advise a couple that’s goin’ to git married. They’ll do as they please, regardless. But you take the ones that was married last June, they’re jest about gittin’ around to the point where they’ll listen. I’m talkin’ to them. . . Here’s the word for the women: Say all year long you’ve been kickin’ about livin’ in small quarters, or about movin’ around tryin’ to git settled. What If you was Anne Lindbergh? She married a year ago last Tuesday. Since then she ain’t hardly slep in the same state two nighta in a row. Lots of times she don’t know what country Charlie’s in. Here’s fer the men: Say, you’re thinkin’ about what a good time you used to have. Well, I’ll tell you what you ftould do if you married. You would take in four or five shows and maybe shoot a little pooh and then you * * /So "On would start beggin’ some girl to - V> oi<, marry yog. i Copyright John r. duo* *.>

Another Bad Break

permitted to develop, it produced poisonous substances/ The poisonous substances, when swallowed by a human being, promptly produced nausea, diarrhea and prostration of the same character as occurred in the people who ate the cake. Similar instances of poisoning of this kind have been reported by investigators in people who drank milk or ate food contaminated by this germ. In the laboratory "of the University of Chicago, fifty-eight men volunteered to drink milk which had been contaminated with this germ or with its products, and eighty feeding tests were made. It was found that symptoms of food poisoning would develop three or four hours after drinking milk containing the filtrates from the germs. The first symptoms were dizziness and loss of appetite, followed

HEYWOOD BROUN

and all that, but why all. the effort of preparation? It seems endless to me. If I sit down to read the morning paper I soon am enveloped in a cloud of dust. “Why, oh tell me why, is life so complicated? Housekeeping certainly is not a competitive affair. Friends don’t come in to see the wife at her duties. They may look at the results of the day’s dusting. “I don’t know. Well, if the thing is not competitive and not a game and not vitally necessary, what is it? I guess it must be women’s weakness. “Slaves bound to the wheel.” tt tt tt Trudge Same Mill I DOUBT if the anxiety to perform today unnecessary things which might better be put off until tomorrow is solely a feminine failing. Men trudge the same treadmill. Here am I, for instance, making myself a slave to the necessity of answering letters. A year ago I used to pile them up in odd corners of the room and say: “I’ll get around to this tomorrow.”' Then, by happy chance, I forgot or, if I

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—l an a subscriber to all three of our city’s leading newspapers, and through them since the evening of April 28, or thereabouts. I haye become a firm believer in P. T. Barnum’s aphorism “there is one born every minute,” with the exception that the time he set was too long. I have reference to the dastardly act cf a supposedly human mother in abandoning her baby in a drenching rain, along a country road near the city. That in itself was enough to cause the average well-meaning person to read up at length on Darwin's theory, in an effort to discern if this profligate hadn’t stopped in her cycle of evolution about'fifty generations before our own, for she did something that a dog or a cow wouldn’t do, with their dumb brute intellect. But aside from this, her case through sympathy for her drew a larger aggregation of jesters than ever graced the courts of all the medieval kings. At a time when thousands in our

by weakness of the legs, headache, pain in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Sometimes there was a slight fever. Usually the symptoms had disappeared by the next morning, but loss of appetite sometimes prevailed for several days. Evidence of this kind is of the greatest importance in our understanding of how food may cause poisoning. The food substances themselves, when grown, when properly packed, when properly cooked and properly taken care of after cooking, are not likely to cause disturbances in anybody. The difficulty arises when these food substances are contaminated by the hands or by the secretions or excretions of human beings, and when the germs of contamination are permitted to grow in the food product and to produce poisons which result in disease.

(deals and opinions expressed In this colnmn are those of sne of America’s most interesting writers and are presented withoct regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude ol this paper.—The Editor.

did remember, I could not find the pesky letters. Years later, undei huge piles of old newspapers and magazines, I would find a rich vein of untouched contributions. And looking them over after this lapse of time it was invariably my conclusion that no great harm had been done by my failure to answer them at the time. At the bottom of the heap lies one marked “absolutely confidential.” Even yet there clings to it the faint odor of mignonette. Yes, that would be Maisie, or possibly, Eloise, or Totsy. If only I answered that how different life might have been. Still, who knows? It may be just as well. By now she has settled down in her new. home in East Orange. Little Eloise. Little Maisie! Comparatively small Totsy! I break the seal and my hand trembles even though two ’ years have elapsed. Feverishly I tear at the flap. The note flutters into a patch of sunlight across the middle of the floor and I read, “This chain was started by an American officer in Flanders and must go nine times around the world (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

“no mean city” literally are groveling in the dirt to provide a living for children whom they love too dearly to abandon by a roadside, it is a pity that those who are financially able can find no better recipient of their benevolence than a mother who wouldn’t sacrifice for her child. And now I read that her exhusband is to be brought to trial *or nonsupport. If my predictions come true, they will “stick” him for the very usual crime of missing a few payments to his mother-in-law for his child’s support, while she goes scot free on the very unusual charge of throwing her child away so she wouldn't have to support him. I believe that “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander” and though I work for every cent I possess and give to charity all that I am able to give, if someone with organizing ability will take up the banner and carry on, I will donate the first dollar to be used in this husband's defense. I am sure there are thousands in Indianapolis who share my sentiments, and I believe enough single dollars can be subscribed to buy the services of Clarence Darrow. We’d better hurry though, or well have a roadster baby, a sedan baby, and perhaps a wheelbarrow baby before the week is out. FRANK S. MCGUIRE. 1545 Hiatt street.

Daily Thought

And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.— Isaiah 63:6. a a a HE’S a fool who can not be angry; but be is a who will not.—Seneca.

.JUNE 3,1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Business Can Improve Even if Employment Decreases , Because This Is a Machine Age. ALONE Democrat, Senator Copeland of New York, may'decide the fate of the worst Republican tariff bill ever framed. Sometimes you wonder whether we really have two parties in this country or whether politics Is just a smoke screen. The third victim dies in Nevada's lethal chamber, as though two quarts of water, one quart of sulphuric acid and ten ounces of cyanide of potassium were the best answer civilization could make to the crime problem. Count Eckener starts the Graf Zeppelin on another trip over the Atlantic, while Chicago gangs take six for a ride and Detroit gangs take five. Julius H. Barnes, chairman of President Hoover's business survey conference, reports conditions as improving, while the labor department reports employment as decreasing. it tt it This Is a Machine Age HOW can business improve if employment decreases? Because this is a machine age and production has ceased to depend on the number of people at work. Time and time again, great corporations have increased their output by substituting machinery for hand labor. On the one hand, we are evolving a mechanism which makes people dependent on jobs, while on the other we are seeking to improve that mechanism by the constant elimination of jobs. If it were not for the multiplication of luxuries and conveniences, there would not be work for more than 10 per cent of the adults in this country. The employment problem has revolved itself into a vicious circle with consumption as the key. tt tt tt Venezuela Pays Off Alexander Hamilton calculated that the labor of four persons was sufficient to supply the necessities of life for 100. If that were true in his day it would be more than sufficient to do so now. Certain economists believe that the best way out is to shorten working hours. Some, indeed, have gone so far as to assert that we should adopt a three-hour day and a fiveday week. Unhappily, there is more to the problem than a nice balance between consumption and production. Venezuela will celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of her independence by paying off the national debt, which amounts to $4,700,000. That is something we could not have done in 1876. Still there are Americans who think that no Latin American government deserves respect. The Monroe doctrine has had much to do with development of such attitude. As lord defenders of the western hemisphere, we have acquired a feeling of smug superiority. tt n u Why Feel Superior? AS a means of keeping Europe out of the new world, the Monroe doctrine is all right, but as an excuse for the United States government to adopt a patronizing attitude toward Latin America, it is all wrong. The time has come for Latin American countries to have some voice in its interpretation and share the responsibility for its enforcement. We *Owe this much to them not only as a matter of abstract justice, but from the standpoint of practical advantage. Under existing conditions, we are alienating the friendship of Latin America, which, in the end, will mean loss of trade. And let no one suppose that European diplomats and commercial agents are not making what use they can of this situation. The desire to promote an economic coalition against the United States in Europe is being cultivated carefully in Latin America. By virtue of the Monroe doctrine, we have prevented Europe from meddling in politics on this side of the Atlantic. Now we face the prospect of her meddling with commerce. In the first place, it was a matter of matching guns with guns. In the second, it is a question of Creating good will. If we love Latin America as much as the Monroe doctrine implies, we ought to quit the bulldozing, whether through intervention or a tariff bill.

IVtiw Well'Doybu B *JCno w ydurßibJe?. I FIVE QUESTIONS A DAY*/ B ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES £ WVIOIOJV.OIWIVWIVA 1. Os whom did Jesus say, “She hath done what she could”? 2. What weapon did Samson use to slay a thousand men? 3. Which two brothers of Joseph tried to save his life from the other brothers? , 4. Who received the keys of the kingdom of heaven? 5. What parable of Jesus ended with the words, “Go, and do thou likewise”? Answers to Yesterday’s Queries: 1. Pilate and Herod; Luke 23:12. 2. On Mars Hill (the Acts 17:19. 3. Delilah: Judges 16:1-21. 4. David, lamenting for Jonathan; II Samuel 1:26. 5. Thirty pieces of silver, About $19.50; Matthew 26:15. How old is John Philip Sousa, Hie bandmaster, and is that his real name? He was bora Nov. 6, 1854. He uses his own name. What type of vessel is the U. S. 8. Reina Mercedes? Where is it stationed? She is a cruiser, and is a station ship at Annapolis, Md. What is the address of Walt Ma son? La Jolla, CaL i .